Djuric: US support to Pristina conditional upon Community of Serb Municipalities

BELGRADE - Serbian Ambassador to Washington Marko Djuric says a bill on support for the Brussels Agreement that has recently been tabled to the US Congress made US support to the Pristina authorities directly conditional upon the establishment of a Community of Serb Municipalities.

The document, tabled by Congress member Claudia Tenney, who co-chairs the Serbian caucus in the US House of Representatives, not only acknowledges the months-long blatant repression, terror and violence against Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija, but also deprives Albin Kurti's institutions of any US government aid until such actions are stopped, Djuric told Politika in an interview.

"US support to the Pristina authorities is directly made conditional upon the establishment of a Community of Serb Municipalities and upon putting an end to a campaign of pressure and violation of the human rights of Serbs in our southern province. An additional strong political message that is conveyed by Claudia Tenney's proposal is a demand that all of the so-called special forces be withdrawn from the north of Kosovo-Metohija and that their illegal presence be terminated. One could say this is a novelty in the US attitude towards the ethnic Albanian side," Djuric said.

He said he expected the facts stated in the document to soon encourage more and more Democratic and Republican Congress members to endorse it politically.